'hpPostProcessing.bundle' malware?

Today I was working on my MacBook Pro and I wanted to print a document on an HP printer. When I pressed the 'print' button, Gatekeeper told me the following proces/application is malware and does harm to my Mac: 'hpPostProcessing.bundle'.


Normally I never have this issue when I want to print anything on the printer that I used today. Could anyone tell me if I need to assume that this process/application is really malware, or that I can assume that it is a 'false positive'?


Thanks in advance.

Posted on Oct 23, 2020 1:43 AM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2020 9:59 AM

User ewayte found the main reason. It's part of the link he supplied:


From sources familiar with the matter that HP Inc asked Apple to revoke its printer driver code-signing certificates. It appears this request backfired as it left users unable to print. A HP Inc spokesperson told us on Friday night:


We unintentionally revoked credentials on some older versions of Mac drivers. This caused a temporary disruption for those customers and we are working with Apple to restore the drivers. In the meantime, we recommend users experiencing this problem to uninstall the HP driver and use the native AirPrint driver to print to their printer.

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Oct 23, 2020 8:34 AM in response to apebox

When you choose to use the AirPrint driver over the "standard" Mac driver, the disadvantage is:


you are discarding any possible use of Printer special features that could have been specified in the Printer dialog box.


Some printers can do built-in duplexing, alternate paper trays, image rotations or landscape/portrait, different paper sizes, shrinking/enlarging, different grayscale or color options, draft mode, and more.


the advantage is:

it prints the same way as your phone.


Oct 26, 2020 2:20 PM in response to Kurt Lang

The file in question (whether the ftp or http link) is widely reported as ineffective. The System updates is still ineffective (Command+R notwithstanding).


The files recommended here are time stamped in June with the exception of one (...ASU/Hewlettpackardprinterdrivers...) which is dated 6th October. (i.e. not the one pointed to above)


It seems surprising to me that in June, HP had a file that was going to fix a problem that had not yet been caused and a fault that was actually going to be within within the OSX security signing system rather than anything to do with the drivers themselves.

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